Unconventional forms of international trade (such as counterpurchase, compensation deals and barter) have assumed rapidly growing importance, especially in many developing countries, as a consequence of the fall in commodity prices and the worsening of international debt problems since the oil...

By now the need for a code of conduct for technology transfer has been accepted by all groups of countries represented at the UN. Both the proposals of the Group of 77 and the counterproposals of the Western Industrial countries were submitted in early December 1975 to the first session of the...

The author discusses the controversial problems connected with the transfer of highly sophisticated technologies to LDCs. In his opinion this transfer and adaptation of technologies is necessary and advantageous, but depends on the development of a national technological capacity of a developing...

One of the crucial themes in the dialogue between North and South is the nature and volume of the transfer of technology from the industrialized to the developing world. In contrast to the demand of overcoming the “technology gap“ Prof. Baumer argues that the postulate should rather be...